Global sea levels rising twice as fast as they did last century, according to major scientific report
Global sea levels rising twice as fast as they did last century, according to major scientific report
Global sea levels rising twice as fast as they did last century, according to major scientific report
Every measure of climate change is going in the wrong direction, and some of them faster than ever before, a vast new paper has warned. Emissions should be falling, but are still rising.
The study - which takes a laser focus on climate change in the 2020s, a critical decade to stop the worst damage - finds all 10 measures are going in the wrong direction.
And most of them are doing so at a faster rate.
The findings are "unprecedented" but "unsurprising", given the world continues to pump record levels of planet-warming gases into the atmosphere.
"We see a clear and consistent picture that things are getting worse," said lead author Professor Piers Forster.